Sandy Boucher

Sandy Boucher is a Buddhist-feminist teacher, author and editor active in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific Northwest for 35 years. She is the author of nine books exploring women’s experience and spiritual practice. Sandy was active in the Women’s Liberation Movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the seventies, and helped organize Women and Buddhism conferences in the eighties and nineties. She has worked as editor on magazines such as Inquiring Mind, and the online magazine of the arts Persimmon Tree. She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship for Literature, and was named an Outstanding Woman in Buddhism in 2006.

Sandy lives in Oakland, California with her partner Martha Boesing, theater artist, climate-change activist and Buddhist teacher, and feels held in their family of three children, spouses, and grandchildren, as well as several cats and one dog. With Martha, she leads the New Year’s Women’s Retreat at Great Vow Zen Center in Oregon.